Protest in Lahore against kidnapping of 13-year-old girl

LAHORE: The family and residents of Boota Park, Shahdara, protested the kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl in front of the Lahore Press Club (LPC) and appealed to the CM Punjab and police high-ups for justice on Monday. A large number of people, majority of them women, gathered in front of the LPC at around 3:00pm and burnt tyres. They blocked the road for every kind of traffic and chanted slogans against the police and accused.
It caused a massive traffic jam on Davis Road, Empress Road, Abbot Road and other adjacent roads. Traffic remained blocked for about two hours and caused inconvenience to commuters. Shahdara police had registered an FIR No. 164/15 on January 26 against the accused nominated as Usama, son of Muhammad Yaqub, Haider, son of Kaka, and Muhammad Yaqub, under Section 363 of the PPC.
The accused kidnapped the victim girl when there was no one at home. The father of the girl had gone to his work and mother to market to take grocery. Neighbours of the victim family, Waris Ali and Muhammad Yusaf, witnessed the accused taking the victim in their car on the day of the incident.
Asmat Bibi, mother of the victim, Anam Shahzadi and Asif Ali, father of the victim, while crying and weeping, told that the accused had done injustice to them by kidnapping their daughter.
The accused were very powerful and dangerous, they said. They alleged that they were drug-peddlers. They ran a gang which kidnapped the young girls and sell them. The accused have also kidnapped many other girls from the locality. They kept on harassing the common people by brandishing automated and sophisticated weapons publicly. No one could dare stop them. Even the police did not take any action against them because they paid bribe to them, they alleged. They appealed to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and police high-ups to take the notice of the incident and bring them to justice.